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Certainly it was an exercise in incongruity to compare these quiet, rather depressed looking people with the vision conjured up by Lord John's 'raving lunatics,' 'worthy of the straight jacket,' or Paul Filey's 'sexless monstrosities.'

And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now -- "Let it pass for the present"; that is, "Thou recoilest, and no wonder, for the seeming incongruity is startling; but in the present case do as thou art bidden." for thus it becometh us -- "us," not in the sense of "me and thee," or

Such striking incongruity is especially appropriate to poetry, such as in Dylan Thomas’s ‘Once below a time’, E.E. Cummings’s ‘the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses’, and John Milton’s ‘Blind mouths!’

More modern theories have rooted humour in incongruity, the juxtaposition of things that don’t belong together (Morreall), or in cognitive shifts of problem resolution (Latta) or from seriousness to play (Boyd).

In order to show the “stupidity of the concepts and words” which emerged from this document, that is, their incongruity and inexactitude, he made use of the lack of reliable testimony or other historical sources which would have validated it and of its contrast with Roman, Hebrew, and Christian law.

And yes, the Jurassic museum does have its roots in the natural history museum's early days and shares with them what the narrator calls an "incongruity born of the overzealous spirit in the face of unfathomable phenomena."